Manufacture of ornamented ware



Sept. 4, 1923 1,467,111

J. B. LESSELL MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTED WARE Filed April 13, 1925 Patented Sept. 4, 1923.

UNITED STAT as 1,467,111 NT OFFICE.

JOHN B. LESSELL, or aANE'svILLE, OHIO, assumes To THE LESSELL comma, or zazmsvrnnn, OHIO, a coaroanrron or 01110.

MANUFACTURE or oauammvrnn wean Application filed April 13, 1923. Serial No. 631,873.

To all whom 'z't may concern: I

Be it known that I, JOHN B. LassELL, a citizen of the United .States, residing at Zanesville, in the county ofMuskingum and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Ornamented Ware, of which'the following is a specification. Y.

My invention relates to the ornamentation of ware and its object is to. produce cm mentation upon glass or upon the bisque, matt or glazed surfaces of pottery or enameled or other metal or other suitable ma terial p Referring to the accompanying drawing 1 show a dish in plan view with certain sec tions thereon at different steps of'themanufacturing process, a portion being broken away. v

The dish has its central portions protected by the cover F. The rinrA, shown in natural color in section 1, is sprayed or otherwise coated with a paint B of the desired color and other preferred characteristics,

as shown on section 2. A print or transfer C is placed on the coat of paint, as shown on will not fuse with the coats B and D at the section 3; and the transfer C and more or less of the surrounding portions, if desired, is covered with a coat of paint D of the desired color characteristics, as shown on section 4. The dish, when provided with the desired .coats and prints, is placed in a kiln or muilie or the like and burned or fired in order to fuse the coats B and D together and to fuse the coat B to the dish. The print or transfer C is made of a substance which kiln or muflle temperatures. After the dish has become sufiiciently cool it is removed from the kiln or mufile, and the print and such parts of the coat D as'is above the print are easily brushed off or otherwise removed,

, leaving the surrounding parts and the parts print on the dish, whichma removed, leaving the configuration of the be transparent, translucent, or opaque. T e parts around this configuration willvhave the colors 'ven to them by the paint alone or byits comhination with other paint in the dish-color beneath. If desired the coat D may cover only portions surrounding the rint, or may overlap it more or less, as t e print C can be brushed away easily whether or not the coat D overlies it.

The operations described are substantiall the same for applications to glass, or glaz bisque or matt surf 7 acres on pottery, or to enamel-ed metal or other metal. I may, as in decorating a vase, spray an initial coat of paint thereon as a background, and ap ly one or more coats of paint thereon, bef dre or after the print or transfer has been "applied or both, the blending and interaction of the coats durin firing bringing out the lustre and co ore to form a decoration design more uniform than found on the usual hand-decorated vase; To illustrate, a background of oran e paint may be a pliedto a vase. On thiswien dry may placed a non-fusible black pigment of a chosen design. A final coat of black may also, if desired. After firing, the nonfusible print and the'coatthereon, if any, are brushed oil, leaving the design of the print on the orange background, while the surrounding parts have distinctive colorations due to the relative varying depths of the orange andblack coats.

In preparing the said material which will i not fuse with the coat B or the coat D, I may use boron,or carbon, or both in finely divided condition mixed with a binder such aslinseed oil, for example. However, I do not limit this invention to these elements, as other materials having a high fusing point. may be used.

I 'clainij 1. The method of treating the surfaces of glass, pottery, porcelain, metal, and like articles, which consists in applying to'the article, a material of selected outline which will not fuse, applying thereon and over the said material a fluid containing the desired coloring matter, firing the article to fuse the coloring matter, and then removing the said material and coloring matter thereoni'rom the article.

cover the orange ground color and the print,

2. The method of treating the surfacesof glass, pottery, porcelain, metal, and like articles, which consists in applying to the natural surface of the article, a ground coat of fusible paint, applying thereto a material of selected outline Which will not fuse, ap plying thereon and over the said material, a fluid containing the desired coloring matter, firing the article and then removing the said material and coloring matter thereon.

3. The method of treating the surfaces of glass, pottery, porcelain, metal, and like articles, which consists in applying to the article, a material of selected outline which will not fuse, spraying thereon andover the said material a fluid containing the desired coloring matter, firing the article to fuse the coloring matter, and then removing the said material and coloring matter thereon from the article.

4. The method of treating the surfaces of glass, pottery, porcelain, metal, and like articles, which consists in applying to the natural surface of the article, a ground coat of'fusible paint. applying thereto a material of selected outline which will not fuse, spraying thereon and over the said material, a fluid containing the desired-coloring matter, firing the article and'then removing the said material and coloring matter thereon.

Signed at Zanesrille, Ohio, this 31st day of March 1923.

JOHN B. LESSELL. 

